Who’s ready for some interactive fiction game jamming? You are? Really? Awesome, because it’s almost time for the annual inkJam. Excited yet? Well, you should be: a whole weekend of interactive storytelling with ink awaits for those interested in creating something. The rest of us will have to wait patiently until the end of inkJam 2024 to have our fun, once all the glorious new choice-driven tales become available. Mark my words: It is going to be awesome!
Theme? Ah, you see, as is the norm for game jams, it won’t be revealed until the jam starts. In the meantime, you may want to brush up on your ink knowledge and maybe even create some samples to get back into the groove if you’re new and/or never dabbled in this particular language. You’re free to use any engine/platform for your creation, though, as long as ink is part of it in some way. It doesn’t even have to be in English, and the only big no-nos are “hateful comments, language or visuals”. That’s about it. Oh, wait, almost forgot: be sure to join inkle’s Discord server if you need help and/or to socialise with other ink fans/users.
What is ink?
It’s an open source narrative scripting language you can use in a variety of environments and game engines to create games with highly branching stories, interactive fiction, and… basically anything with text in it.
inkJam 2024 will run from November 1st 2024 to November 4th 2024. So make sure you’re ready to get interactive. With fiction. Yeah!
